Tuesday, January 31, 2006
So according to the government one person in 16 Britons are homosexual, that’s six per cent of the population. That means that around 40 MP's in Parliament are gay, yet we only know of a handful. This begs the question do the voting public have a right to know of their politicians sexuality? Further does it matter whether a politician or anyone in a position of responsibility is homosexual?
Personally I would answer yes to the first part and no to the second. However I would suggest to you that in private the majority of the general public would have considerable concerns over homosexuals within positions of power.
Lets try and stay away from Mark Oaten , however Simon Hughes and his David Davis esq fall from popularity does raise some very interesting questions and I would be interested to hear views
If its not one its the other!
Ok its been awhile, lets get this blog going again......
As Hague, Osbourne and Fox consider how they are going to resuscitate Conservative links with the US, William Hauge has re-iterated, possibly the only firm Cameron policy which is to withdraw shortly from the European People's Party and European Democrats in the European Parliament.
William has been busily holding discussions with centre right parties throughout Europe in the hope to secure a new Party within the European Parliament. However "in December, the group's leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and Austrian Chancellor and current EU President, Wolfgang Schuessel, warned Cameron he risked being ignored by them if he went ahead with the move".
None of these leaders seem willing to back down and join the Conservative break-away faction, so is it a lost cause? Does the Conservative Party risk losing some important allies? Does it risk opening up old arguments on Conservative policy towards Europe?
Opinions…….
Blair and his..well..you know!
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Victory for Terror
According to preliminary results, Hamas won 76 seats to 43 for the ruling Fatah party, giving them a majority in the 132-seat chamber. The turnout was 77%.
So reports the BBC. Hamas, the group which refuses to recognise Israel, and has not given up terrorism, will now take seats in a democratic parliament. Its hard to imagine how things could be worse.
Israel and the US have made it perfectly clear they will not negotiate with Hamas, and they have good reason not to. So what then happens to the peace process? In fact, was "peace process" even in the mind of Palestinians who voted common thugs to represent them?
Lib Dem “Targets”
According to the Daily Mail (Thursday 26th January), Four Senior Liberal Democrats are in talk to defect to the Conservatives. Tory Sources said the front benches - all high fliers on the right of the party - have been approached to join David Cameron’s rejuvenated party.
The names that have been mentioned are:
David Law – Work and Pension spokesman
Norman Lamb – Trade and Industry spokesman
Vince Cable – Treasury spokesman
Jeremy Browne – Foreign Affairs spokesman
One source said that David Law has been offered a Cabinet role if Cameron became Premier. The MPs denied they were considering defecting but they are all said to be privately concerned that if left winger Simon Hughes become leader he will ruin the party’s election chances by promising to raise taxes. The leadership race has become a lot more interesting for the tories now.
The names that have been mentioned are:
David Law – Work and Pension spokesman
Norman Lamb – Trade and Industry spokesman
Vince Cable – Treasury spokesman
Jeremy Browne – Foreign Affairs spokesman
One source said that David Law has been offered a Cabinet role if Cameron became Premier. The MPs denied they were considering defecting but they are all said to be privately concerned that if left winger Simon Hughes become leader he will ruin the party’s election chances by promising to raise taxes. The leadership race has become a lot more interesting for the tories now.
Monday, January 23, 2006
Cameron writes for Telegraph
During the leadership campaign I made clear that we had to change to win and that, on a wide range of issues - tax cuts, grammar schools, subsidising private healthcare, women candidates, the environment, tackling poverty at home and abroad - I would lead this party in a new direction.
That's exactly what we've been doing these past few weeks. I don't think we have time to hang around: it took the Labour Party 14 years to come to terms with Conservative electoral success and make itself electable again. We have three - four at most.
This is the most interesting part, but make sure to read the whole thing.
David Cameron says this, but that seems to contradict a report on an internet survey, again in Telegraph, that three quarters of conservative party members oppose DC on his recent U turn on grammar schools, and oppose him in his support of "positive discrimination" for women in safe seats.
So is it then true that members elected someone to carry out policy decisions they disagree with? If so, why?
Hmmmmmm......
Saturday, January 21, 2006
This maybe the reason that Mark Oaten dropped out of the Lib Dem leadership race this week.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/4635916.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/4635916.stm
Time for reflection
Probably a bit late on this one, but for those who have not seen them here is a link to Reuters pictures of the year:
http://photos.reuters.com/Pictures/galleries/
showcases/showcase_slide.asp?storyID=
632702912668906250&urlStr=/pictures/&directory=/configData/Pictures/
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Greenpeace
Any views on the new Greenpeace video?
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/fridaythe13th/
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Aberystwyth Conservative Future
Heathrow villages threatened by Labour sell outs to big business
The following grauniad link is about the villages at the South of my borough of Hillingdon. I live here and hope to stand for council this May.
Time for a new regional hub by the Channel Tunnel rauil link and linked to Crossrail, as advocated by the Superlink proposal. Canvey and Sheppey Islands are gonna flood anyway over the next 50 years so why not replace them a la Hong Kong?
The following grauniad link is about the villages at the South of my borough of Hillingdon. I live here and hope to stand for council this May.
Time for a new regional hub by the Channel Tunnel rauil link and linked to Crossrail, as advocated by the Superlink proposal. Canvey and Sheppey Islands are gonna flood anyway over the next 50 years so why not replace them a la Hong Kong?
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Cameron's grand strategy
It seems to be well recorded that Cameron has a soft spot for some rather popular music. Naming ‘the Queen Is Dead’ as his favourite album of all time he has also been quoted as enjoying a bit of Radiohead, Blur and Pulp. Only on further inspection we see that through such musical tastes DC is cleverly appealing to the masses.
Smiths - represent the working classes
Radiohead - intellectuals/snobs
Blur - Londoners
Pulp - northerners
Genius!
Charles Kennedy
And so it is….the inevitable.. Yesterday marked the death of the Liberal Democrats as ever loveable Charles Kennedy crashed from power
I will admit that I do find lots of sympathy for Charles inside of me. It is undeniable that he has been a very effective leader of the Lib Dems and was a very respected and dignified politician. It is a very sad event when any person is torn apart by the horrors of alcoholism.
However whilst the focus and discussions have been upon Charles in recent days, attention should spread elsewhere. The way that senior Liberal Democrat MP’s have behaved is nothing short of disgraceful. In 2004 they knew that Charles had a drink problem so big were there concerns that they issued him with an ultimatum. They watched him miss the 2004 budget speech, have an uncomfortable Party conference speech, forget figures at a key policy launch and pull out of a speech in Newcastle. These are just the public examples, numerous other private mishaps seem to have been recorded in Party activists memories. Yet through all of this Lib Dem MP’s went to Parliament, went to their constituencies, fought a General Election, knowing that their leader was in no fit state to be heading the Party. For the good of Charles’s health, he should never have been allowed to continue as leader as long as he has. It shows the total inadequacies, indecisiveness, cowardliness and incompetence of the senior Liberal Democrats in not one of them being able to act decisively on this issue.
The future of the Lib Dems is in jeopardy. The choice seems to be between Sir Menzies Campbell, who will not be able to appeal to the masses, particularly when facing our dearest Cameron. On the other hand you have the ever charming Simon Hughes, who will take the Party further to the left and make them even more unelectable.
Maybe now, the true face of the Lib Dems will be revealed. Only then will people understand how well Charles Kennedy did and how essential he was to their recovery.
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Tory membership up 16,000 under Cameron
"Conservative Party membership now stands at around 290,000. Labour's has slumped from more than 400,000 at the peak of Tony Blair's appeal to under 200,000 while the Liberal Democrats have around 70,000 members."
Thats great news guys!
Thats great news guys!
